Mount Hakodate - one of the attractions of Hakodate, which is located in the southern part of the island of Hokkaido. On the hillside is almost the entire central part of the city. And to be on top of it, you need to get on a bus or take the cable car, lower station is located right in the city center, on the street Motomachi.

The height of the mountain is 334 meters and its slopes are covered with forests - are in Japan, frankly, a prominent mountain. However Hakodate in clear weather offers a beautiful view of the city. Moreover, the night view of the city is one of the three most outstanding night views, along with views of the mountain Inacio Nagasaki and Kobe city from Mount Rokko. On top of the mountain located observatory, café and restaurant, as well as souvenir shops.

On the slopes of Mount Hakodate is preserved from the time of the Meiji so-called "Western Quarter", which was built in the spirit of the Wild West. Nearby is a Russian Orthodox church, built in 1862 and reconstructed in 1917.

City Hakodate, founded in the middle of the XV century, for many years served as the western gate of Japan, so its territory you can see traces of different cultural traditions - European, Russian, American, Chinese, but the buildings in the traditional Japanese style is not so much. Many of the foreigners who lived in Hakodate, were buried in the cemetery, also located on the slopes of the mountain of the same name. In the Russian part of the cemetery was set a two-meter memorial cross made of white stone. For a sample was taken Novgorod worship cross XI-XII centuries. At the cemetery he was buried by Russian diplomats, sailors and their family members, including the wife of the first head of the Russian diplomatic mission of Joseph Goshkevich.